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Highlights from the October 2021 contract special:
- 2022/23 one year contract price at £27/t
- Futures linked contract for up to 10% of CTE allowing growers to make independent pricing decisions
- Existing multi-year contracts can be extended and fixed at £25/t
Previous editions of The Beet Brief can be found below.
Bumper edition focusing on the 2022 contract announcement
Dim August weather holding back yields, further gains in world prices
2021/22 outlook, tight short term supply and strong gains in world markets.
Comparison of British Sugar's 'minimum' price and NFU's position
Crop development and analysis of British Sugar's latest accounts
April frosts and yield impacts
UK import prices, drilling progress and European area expectations
World and EU sugar prices, UK imports and analysis of the Beet Package Plus
Firming world prices but mixed outlook for European market in 2021/22 and details of French processors' incentives to growers
1.1p/t bonus in first month of 2020/21 one-year contract and comment on 260Kt tariff free sugar import quota
2.6p/t final bonus for 2019/20, 2020/21 prices and production and declining average yields
Yield losses across Europe and futures linked values remain £21-£22/t
EU prices and futures linked contract values
2021/22 contract announcement and EU+UK production forecasts
VY impacts in North West Europe and stock drawdown
First monthly bonus triggered, European yield concerns and world market rising
Analysis of monthly European price changes, and view on extreme weather causing emergence issues.
Price and consumption impacts of Covid-19. Meanwhile, EU sugar prices close to beet contract bonus trigger point
World sugar prices tumble as oil prices fall, while EU average prices continue to steadily rise.
World prices hit 33 month high, 2020/21 forecasts pointing to much smaller deficit as prices encourage more sugar from Brazil.
EU prices remaining weak while world prices hit 14 month highs
Crop updates around the world, seed ordering and ISO work on payment systems
Rainfall and yield linkage, EU yields and 2020 forecasts
2020 contract offer in detail, EU market update
EU markets and crops, world prices
World outlook, EU yields and currency
EU prices, balances and forecasts, Mercosur negotiations and Saint Louis Sucre 2020/21 beet price announcement
EU prices, updates from WABCG and CIBE and French industry disputes over factory closures
EU markets and area projections
EU markets, beet and sugar prices
EU prices, world markets and further restructuring by Südzucker
EU prices, import expectations and Südzucker factory closures
Prices, EU campaigns and surplus price announcement
EU sugar balance, import price parity and WABCG beet reception transparency study
EU and world production forecasts, prices and sugar taxes
EU prices, sugar demand and performance rules
2019/20 contract details, EU prices
EU price, contracts, rainfall and yields
EU price, weather, world market and sugar taxes
EU price, plantings, neonics and haulage scheme
EU price, campaign and world market
EU price, 2018/19 outlook
EU surplus, exports and price premium
EU price and balance
EU price, balance, stocks and imports
Price indications, Brazil and neonics
EU price, currency and market-related beet price bonus value
EU balance, world price and refining margin